I am such a hypocrite about all of this.I don't like Facebook, but I love Oculus. I think it's shady what Facebook is doing with user data, but I openly welcome Google to know everything about me. Should I delete Facebook? Yes. Will I? Probably not.Would my life be in any way different? I would gain a couple hours a week and lose a way to connect with some people.

Blue Jackets wrote:Source of the post Snapchat is building the same kind of data-sharing API that just got Facebook into trouble.

I don't use Snapchat, but users aren't sharing the same kind of data on this app, right? There aren't profiles? I also haven't ever seen a "share it with Snapchat" option on a website, that is how Facebook is able to track people so well.

Blue Jackets wrote:Source of the post Mozilla launches Facebook Container Add-On for Firefox that isolates the Facebook identity of users from rest of the web activity

I believe Ublock Origin (chrome and Firefox) can block this stuff as well if you enable it.

A huge movement could hit Facebook next Monday. Mike Schroepfer, its chief technology officer, announced on Wednesday that the company will place a link at the top of everyone’s news feed to a privacy tool. This tool will reveal whether a user’s data is embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica scandal — and it could reignite the #DeleteFacebook movement.https://www.inverse.com/article/43278-d ... zuckerberg

The announcement follows CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s promise in a March 21 interview with CNN’s Laurie Segall, when he announced a tool “where anyone can go and see if their data was a part of this.” Around 270,000 people granted permissions to an app created by researcher Aleksandr Kogan called “thisisyourdigitallife,” which promised to provide personality predictions. The app’s data was given to Cambridge Analytica — which violated Facebook’s app policies — and subsequently used to target ads during political campaigns. When the story broke on March 18 it was initially thought that around 50 million people had been affected by the policy violation, but the company explained on Wednesday that the maximum theoretical number of people hit by the scandal is in fact around 87 million.

Blue Jackets wrote:Source of the post the company will place a link at the top of everyone’s news feed to a privacy tool. This tool will reveal whether a user’s data is embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica scandal — and it could reignite the #DeleteFacebook movement.

How will Facebook tell me if my data was harvested?From Monday, all 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive one of two notices titled “Protecting Your Information” at the top of their news feed.

This will include a link to show people the apps they use and the information they have shared with those apps.

One of the notices will tell Facebook users whether their data may have been shared with Cambridge Analytica, Facebook’s chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer said in a blog post.